Furnace in Earlsrath, County Kilkenny

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On a steep SW-facing slope in a natural hollow. Excavated in 2007 in advance of the N9/N10 Kilcullen to Waterford road improvement scheme (Licence no. E3391, E3645). Two sequential furnaces in one location. The primary furnace was a circular pit (diam. 0.4m; D 0.26m) with steep sides and a rounded base. It was cut through at E by the secondary furnace (diam. 0.4m; D 0.26m) which was also circular with steep sides and a rounded base. This pit had an oxidised base and sides and contained black silty charcoal, undiagnostic slag. This pit was joined to a wider subrectangular ‘working hollow’ (1.2m N-S; 1m E-W; D 0.22m). Some charred barley grains amongst the charcoal yielded a radiocarbon date of cal AD 429-562 (UBA-15540). A pit with metalworking waste was excavated 27m to the NE. Four fulachta fia (KK040-091----, KK040-092----, KK040-093---- and KK040—094----) were excavated in the same area. (Wren 2010a; 2010b, 243-4, 916) Compiled by: Mary Tunney Date of upload: 27 November 2013

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record KK040-095

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